Last week, I noticed about 6 cop cars outside a local bank, and feared the worst. Yes, they were investigating a bank robbery. The shuttle driver was taking me to pick up my own car from the repair shop. He's retired and we started talking about crime.
He said he recently had a flat tire and CAA came to replace it. They noticed that he had a very old spare tire. He was surprised and figured it was switched when he was having some work done on the car in Florida at a GM Dealership.
Then he said he knew this young man and his father from a local rep basketball team. It turns out the father had robbed about 5 local jewellery stores and was now serving time in jail. The son had been implicated in one of the robberies, being a big, burly guy. Apparently the wife/mom is quite attractive and the driver figured it must have been expensive to keep her dressed in that style. She has since had to get a job and the son had to quit basketball due to the high rep fees. It's a sad story and we blamed it on greed and on our society that forces people to try to keep up with appearances so much.
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You dont get to see a robbery every day. that story about the tyres scares me as my car is in the repair shop at the moment courtesy of my daughter who had a bingle with a tram - I just dont trust that they will fix it properly with the right parts and its only 6 months old. People are greedy, not everyone of course, but its a sad fact of modern day life. And where does it get people anyway?
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